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Stranger in the Village

ISBN-10: 0807071218

ISBN-13: 9780807071212

Edition: 1999

Authors: Farah J. Griffin, Cheryl J. Fish

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Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing This anthology documents two centuries of writing by African-Americans who have traveled abroad in search of new opportunities, political insight, pleasure, and adventure. Includes work by James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Matthew Henson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and more.
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Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 5/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Robert G. O'Meally is Zora Neale Hurston Professor of American Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Jazz Cadence of American Cultureand Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday.Brent Hayes Edwards is an associate professor of English at Rutgers University and the author of The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism.Farah Jasmine Griffin is a professor of English, comparative literature, and African American studies at Columbia University. She is the author of If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: In Search of Billie Holiday.

Introduction
Adventurers
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout and Pioneer and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
Nellie Brown, or The Jealous Wife with Other Sketches
The Pedro Gorino
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
Missionaries and Activists of the Nineteenth Century
"Letter to the Editor"
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw
A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, The Colored Evangelist
Reminiscences of School Life, and Hints on Teaching
Africa
A Brief Account of the Settlement and Present Situation of the Colony of Sierra Leone, in Africa
Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party
A Pilgrimage to My Motherland
The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa
From West Africa to Palestine
"Little Portraits of Africa" from The Crisis
Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
The Rise and Fall of the Proper Negro
West African Travels
France
The American Fugitive in Europe: Sketches of Places and People Abroad
The Diaries of Gwendolyn Bennett
"Yarrow Revisited" from The Crisis
"What Paris Means to Me" from Negro Digest
"Countee Cullen on French Courtesy" from The Crisis
"Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown" from Notes of a Native Son
Russia
A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy Prince
"Soviet Russia and the Negro" from The Crisis
"Going South in Russia" from The Crisis
"Notes from a Trip to Russia" from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Black Bolshevik
Russian Journals
Truth Seekers: Statesmen, Scholars and Journalists (from 1930 to the Civil Rights Era)
"Naples and the Land of the Emigrant" from The Man Farthest Down
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
"My Trip to Cuba in Quest of Negro Books" from Opportunity
Island Possessed
An African American in South Africa
"My Trip to the Land of Gandhi" from Ebony
"A Colored Brother Lost" from The Pitfall and the Proud
Visitors, Tourists, and "Others"
"African Fragment" from Report from Part One
"How Far from Here to Mexico?" from The Crisis
"The City" from The Bern Book: A Record of the Voyage of the Mind
"Report from the Bahamas" from Moving Towards Home: Political Essays
"Excerpts from a Dakar Diary" from Sage
"How She Came by Her Name" from Deep Sightings and Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations
"All It Took Was a Road/Unexpected Surprises of Urban Renewal" from If I Can Cook/You Know God Can
"No Stops Until Darwin" from A Long Way from St. Louie
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Credits